Gilbert Cruz of TIME’s Briefing section wrote the That Viral Thing column this week about “Previously on Lost,” a YouTube comedy clip about what happens to a foolhardy young man who tries to catch up with four seasons of Lost: All… at… once:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuFk1KKdNFw]
Strangely enough, that’s pretty much the same spread I always have set up when I watch Lost.
This, meanwhile, is old but still funny:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcatQSyRK6c]
Speaking of all this, during the Paley Center session last weekend, ABC screened the first 30 minutes of tonight’s premiere, preceded by a recap trailer that amazingly summed up the basic premises of the show in about four minutes, and made me think that Seven Minute Sopranos may be the most influential piece of television of this decade.